The NewDeal Office 3.2 start up screen. NewDeal Office is the descendant
of GeoWorks (PC/GEOS) and runs on top of DOS. As of 2002 Breadbox Computer
Company LLC picked up development and sales of this product under the new
name "Breadbox Ensemble".

The NewDeal Office 3.2 evaluation version has most of the features of
the full commercial version, but is limited to a 45 day trial period from
the time you install it after which time it will refuse to start.

The NewDeal evaluation is no longer available for download but was replaced
by Ensemble Lite. Ensemble Lite includes a non-time limited desktop GUI
and several example applications, but it lacks most of the applications
that came with the NewDeal Office evaluation. It will also only run the
applications that come with Ensemble Lite. The full commercial versions,
of course do not have these limitations.

The default graphical shell is basically a Windows Explorer clone,
but it leaves out all of the BS that that newer Windows version have, leaving
an extremely usable lightweight user interface that works well even on
old 386 machines.

It features a "Computer" icon that lists all of the drives on the system,
and file folders open in new windows. Files and folders can be placed on
the desktop, although the right-click context menu only has an option for
creating new folders.

The task bar is fairly typical, containing buttons for open windows,
a clock and a "start" menu. This screen shot shows all of the programs
available under the Applications menu.

NewDeal supports a form of long filenames (the same way PC/GEOS does).
All files in the "World" folder have a separate filename database that
NewDeal looks at instead. NewDeal does not recognize Windows 9x long filenames.

NewDeal includes a VESA driver that enables it to display in very high
resolutions if your video card supports the VESA standard. It also has
a number of drivers for older video cards, including Hercules mono graphics
and CGA cards. (I had to use basic VGA for these screen shots because the
screen dumper does not work with higher resolutions).

Here are a few of the NewDeal Office applications, NewCalc - a spreadsheet,
NewWrite - a word processor, and NewDraw - a graphics program.